The first few times it happened, I screamed blue murder for the nurse, who came and simply opened the clamp, increasing the flow and flushing the blood back into the vein in a wonderfully cold ripply gush.

She considers it fun to flush saline solution through the port in her chest.

One milliliter of sterile saline is flushed into the middle ear cavity and aspirated back.

Flush as in flushed cheeks, flush the lavatory was first recorded in the sense ‘move rapidly, spring up’, especially in the context of a bird’. It is symbolic, fl- frequently beginning words connected with sudden movement; perhaps, in this case, influenced by flash and blush. The sense ‘level with’ (mid 16th century) is probably the same word, probably from the image of a river running full and level with its banks. The term for a hand of cards all of the same suit is perhaps from French flux (formerly flus), from Latin fluxus ‘a flow’, and dates from the early 16th century. This specialized use may be compared with English run also used in cards contexts.

Origen

Flush as in flushed cheeks, flush the lavatory was first recorded in the sense ‘move rapidly, spring up’, especially in the context of a bird’. It is symbolic, fl- frequently beginning words connected with sudden movement; perhaps, in this case, influenced by flash and blush. The sense ‘level with’ (mid 16th century) is probably the same word, probably from the image of a river running full and level with its banks. The term for a hand of cards all of the same suit is perhaps from French flux (formerly flus), from Latin fluxus ‘a flow’, and dates from the early 16th century. This specialized use may be compared with English run also used in cards contexts.

Origen

Flush as in flushed cheeks, flush the lavatory was first recorded in the sense ‘move rapidly, spring up’, especially in the context of a bird’. It is symbolic, fl- frequently beginning words connected with sudden movement; perhaps, in this case, influenced by flash and blush. The sense ‘level with’ (mid 16th century) is probably the same word, probably from the image of a river running full and level with its banks. The term for a hand of cards all of the same suit is perhaps from French flux (formerly flus), from Latin fluxus ‘a flow’, and dates from the early 16th century. This specialized use may be compared with English run also used in cards contexts.

Origen

Flush as in flushed cheeks, flush the lavatory was first recorded in the sense ‘move rapidly, spring up’, especially in the context of a bird’. It is symbolic, fl- frequently beginning words connected with sudden movement; perhaps, in this case, influenced by flash and blush. The sense ‘level with’ (mid 16th century) is probably the same word, probably from the image of a river running full and level with its banks. The term for a hand of cards all of the same suit is perhaps from French flux (formerly flus), from Latin fluxus ‘a flow’, and dates from the early 16th century. This specialized use may be compared with English run also used in cards contexts.